The cascade Vol. 23 No. 22

Vol. 23 Issue 22

September 23, 2015 to September 29, 2015

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Our relationship with “aww”

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SHEDDING SOME LIGHT

A HAIRY SITUATION

THE GATEWAY PODCAST

UFV Electronics and Pioneer LED Street Light

A sexpert’s take on navigating the manscape

A look at the compelling, emotional,

look at energy efficiency and light waste

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News

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Geography students study food systems in Tanzania

Opinion

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What’s with all these idiots who disagree with me?

Culture

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Entertainment vs. elucidation

Editor-in-Chief kodie@ufvcascade.ca Kodie Cherrille

Arts in Review

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If it ain’t broke, don’t change it

Managing Editor valerie@ufvcascade.ca Valerie Franklin

Sports & Health

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Trying to avoid the infamous “Freshman 15”?

Four UFV geography students took a study-tour in East Africa to study supermarkets and roadside fruit stands.

Reducing your opponents to cartoon versions of their ideas is fun, but Alex Rake argues it’s not always useful.

W.P. Kinsella got famous writing feel-good fiction like Shoeless Joe (which became the film Field of Dreams), but still feels on the outside of literary appreciation. Michael Scoular reports.

Keith Richards’ latest record goes back to his blues and rock roots.

It’s tempting to start living entirely on mac ‘n’ cheese as the semester heats up. Esra Al-Abduljabar has tips on how to stay healthy.

Who watches the local watchmen?

Integrity of local journalism is challenged in the digital revolution KODIE CHERRILLE

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A.J.Liebling I wouldn’t be surprised if you think that quote, which was written in 1960, seems a little bit outdated. Freedom of the press appears to be overshadowed by our expanded freedom to information — you’re always just a Google search away from other sides to the story. Furthermore, the great liberating force of the internet promises that everyone has the opportunity to tell their own story.

However, the question of who owns a press is still absolutely relevant, though a revision from “press” to something more openended, like “media outlet,” might be necessary. While we can get our information elsewhere, the big media outlets have a large dedicated readership, as well as the resources and authority a wee little freelancer or a blogger might not have, and we still count on those outlets to offer the kind of investigative journalism that holds those in power accountable.

Journalism becomes compromised, corrupted, when it’s floundering to survive. Currently, pressures like plummeting ad revenue and the ongoing recession have significantly impacted the ability that media outlets have to offer that journalism. As business falters, newspapers must routinely endure cuts to staff and editorial content, and original, informative content gets choked out by more ads — and sometimes questionable content.

When the situation is dire, publishers might begin to think

YOUR AD HERE twice about integrity, and even turn journalistic content into advertisements themselves.

“Advertorials,” or native advertisements, are advertisements designed to appear like articles.

Advertorials risk misleading readers into believing that a message vetted by a paying ad buyer is an authentic article by a reputable writer.

And when those advertori-

Journalism becomes compromised, corrupted, when it’s floundering to survive. als appear to address important questions of public policy— like,

say, pipelines — from a journalistic point-of-view, they’re downright irresponsible.

The Globe and Mail is popular enough to get called out when its editorial content becomes compromised, like when J-Source, the Albatross, and Canadaland report that Globe management wants its journalists to publish “branded content.”

The Vancouver Sun is popular enough to get called out as passing advertisement for journalism by DeSmog Canada when articles lauding then-Northern Gateway executive vice-president Janet Holder as “the perfect lead on Northern Gateway.” The article was later taken offline.

So who calls out papers like the Abbotsford News if they do something similar?

The question of staying afloat is a significant one for media out-

lets all over the English-speaking world, but it’s especially problematic for local newspapers.

Smaller presses can’t absorb economic blows the way larger publications can.

One might argue that yes, local papers cannot take strong economic blows, but they’re small, and therefore nimble.

Fair enough. But local publications haven’t really played to that strength. They take obvious steps into the 21st century with websites and multimedia content, but the business model is still media buy-outs and mergers, cuts, and ads. There is no space for the innovation required for a new generation of consumers.

In the end, the question of the freedom of the press remains vitally important. The Cascade’s pretty damn lucky to have a student levy — because of it, we won’t die if we don’t sell any ad space in this issue, and for as long as students continue to fund us, we can operate autonomously from UFV, the Student Union Society, or ad-buyers. Other papers are not so lucky, and their coverage is compromised if they’re covering an event put on by the company that helped keep them afloat and took out a full-page ad.

When Abby News refused to give an ad to the Vancouver Humane Society over the summer, which happened to criticize an event that Abby News was sponsoring, they refused to provide an explanation. When the Vancouver Sun called, they refused to respond.

A question of free speech is asked: no one answers, and Liebling’s point still stands.

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Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect that of UFV, Cascade staff and collective, or associated members.

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BC chief electoral officer visits UFV Strategies to improve youth voter turnout discussed at seminar JEFFREY TRAINOR

NEWS

BRIEFS UFV chemistry program under review; CIS certificates to be discontinued ABBOTSFORD (UFV) — At the last UFV Senate meeting last Friday, September 18, the board approved a recommendation for an academic review of the chemistry program and the discontinuance of four computer information systems (CIS) certificate programs: the animation arts certificate, the CISCO networking and network security certificate, the professional computer proficiency certificate, and the web design and animation concentration in the CIS program. The academic planning and priorities committee recommended the discontinuance to Senate. The Cascade will continue to cover this story in the coming weeks.

BC government asks for public input concerning budget The provincial government has released a Budget 2016 consultation paper as a PDF, seeking public input. As the government is running a $1.68 billion surplus, the Ministry of Finance is gathering opinions from BC residents as to how that funding should be used.

Submissions are also going to be collected through public hearings; written, audio, and video submissions; or through an online survey. The submission deadline is 12 a.m. on Thursday October 15, 2015. The data will be compiled in a government report in February 2016.

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In light of the coming federal election in October, UFV welcomed BC Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Keith Archer last Wednesday, September 16.

Archer is the face of Elections BC, a non-partisan organization which operates solely as the governing body for provincial elections in BC. Though Archer himself doesn’t work with federal elections, his lecture’s focus was applicable. Archer visited UFV to discuss how Elections BC is working to improve the participation of youth voter turnout.

The lecture was poorly-attended, with only a handful of students in the audience.

Coincidentally, Archer’s seminar topic was pertaining to apathy among young voters. Archer noted that in the 2009 provincial election only 37 per cent of youth from ages 18 to 30 voted. In 2013, that number slightly increased to 46 per cent. Archer explained that these numbers are far below the participation of older subsections of the population.

“Anybody in the age group 35 and above had seen almost no change in their voter turnout,” he said.

“Almost all the decline is due to youth disengagement.”

In light of this, Archer highlighted some ways Elections BC

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Provincial Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) spoke at UFV last week about voter turnout in youth.

is working to improve turnout.

These suggestions included improving the quality of the voters list by getting more young people registered.

“Almost all the decline is due to youth disengagement.“ Elections BC’s strategy is to target high school students who are nearing legal voting age.

Archer said he hopes that this would also include collaborating with high school social studies classes. He also mentioned that Elections BC is working to incorporate new technology that may appeal to young voters in terms of convenience and familiarity.

But, as Archer mentioned, most think that it is just their parents who should decide.

After the seminar, Archer and Associate Dean of Faculty in the College of Arts Ken Brealey announced that UFV will look to work with Elections BC to offer

SUS EGM takes second shot at quorum MEGAN LAMBERT

Stó:lō Nation appoints new grand chief CHILLIWACK — After 10 years as president of the Stó:lō Nation Chief’s Council (SNCC), Joe Hall has stepped down to be replaced by Squiala chief David Jimmie. Jimmie has a background in business and education, previously working for the Chilliwack School District in addition the residential / commercial construction industry. The SNCC represents 11 Stó:lō communities.

— The Chilliwack Progress

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On Tuesday, September 22, the Student Union Society (SUS) held their second attempt at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). Approximately 30 students attended, but it was not enough to make the second-attempt quorum of around 45 students.

SUS held a first attempt last Tuesday, but did not make quorum.

“I didn’t know the time would be an issue,” said vice-president internal Ricky Coppola, referring to the morning start of the meeting.

He went on to say that the next EGM date will be decided at the SUS Board of Directors meeting this Friday and will likely follow in October.

Image: University of the Fraser Valley / Flickr

The attempted EGM was held in the Student Union Building.

multi-disciplinary courses to help expand information on voting.

“The project that we are introducing with the University of the Fraser Valley will be directed towards helping us either understand [how to improve voter turnout] and [to help] position our response to declining voter turnout by youth better,” he said.

These courses are set to begin in Winter 2016.

CORRECTION In Issue 21 of The Cascade, published on Wednesday, September 16, we printed: “For the newest edition of Passer and Smith’s Psychology: Frontiers and Applications — a textbook used in every PSYCH 101 course at UFV — students have to shell out $147.95 at the bookstore, or $99 for the eBook.” This is incorrect.

The correct phrasing is this: “For the newest edition of Passer and Smith’s Psychology: Frontiers and Applications — a textbook used in a PSYCH 101 course at UFV — students have to shell out $147.95 at the bookstore, or $99 for the eBook.”

The online version of the article will be edited to reflect these changes. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

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Science on Purpose

Geography students study food systems during internship in Tanzania

EKANKI CHAWLA CONTRIBUTOR

Four UFV students studied food security while on a hands-on trip in East Africa last summer.

The UFV geography department recently received $300,000 from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fund. This funding allows UFV to send a total of 26 students to Eastern Africa for various projects regarding food security, women and children’s rights, and international development.

Fourth year UFV students Sierra Nickel and Josh Rempel were among the first four students to go on a fully-funded internship this past summer.

“There [have] been other interns that have gone before, but we were the first ones under this funding,” Rempel explains.

Working with the Ardhi University in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Nickel and Rempel spent three months in the city looking into the country’s overall food security and food systems. Throughout the semester, UFV geography professor Cherie Enns supervised the students in the country for two weeks, but reviewed their progress online.

Their project was focused toward supermarkets — ­ how they are stocked, run, and maintained.

“We looked at where [the supermarkets] were getting their food from, and the challenges they face in getting and importing food,” Nickel says. This involved the group having to go into each supermarket to conduct observational surveys and record data. The bulk of their information came from interviews with three local supermarket managers.

They found that Tanzania’s supermarket system is very informal, with few large-scale farms. Nickel says that the biggest challenge Tanzanians face is the importation laws that don’t allow them to import from big farms in neighboring African countries. Due to the underdeveloped transportation infrastructure of the country, it is difficult to get quality and quantity in produce. Rempel and Nickel say that to help, policies should be implemented to develop the smallholder farms in the country, which would help them become larger farms. He explains that because their food would be grown inside their country, it could help Tanzania’s food chains, food markets, and their economy.

“Their food would be cheaper,

so they’d have greater food security within the big cities and small communities,” he says.

Nickel went on to add that Canadian food systems differ largely from Tanzania in that the bulk of our population relies on large corporate grocery chains.

In Tanzania there are some newly developed supermarkets, but informal markets and stands are more common.

“So in Tanzania, someone will just have a watermelon plant growing in their house and they’ll sell them on the side of their road and it will be totally fine,” she says.

“I think that’s something completely different from what we have here.”

For middle- and high-class Tanzanian citizens, both small businesses and large corporations are available to them. Nickel and Rempel interviewed some people in that demographic to see if they prefer shopping at the supermarket or at small stands, and noted that many high-income earners want to support the local economy by buying fruit from their friend or neighbour’s stands.

According to Rempel, some research similar to this had been done in Kenya, but never before in Tanzania.

“It’s something that we would have never gotten to do if we were in a class, but the internship let us do the full thing,” Rempel says.

Aiming for a future career in urban planning, Nickel says the opportunity let her put his knowledge to use.

“The trip was really valuable for undergrad experience,” she says.

The four UFV students started with a hypothesis and finished by writing a final 85-page report. Currently working with a Toronto PhD student, Nickel says they are in the process of trying to get their research published in an undergrad journal. Alongside the other students, Nickel and Rempel will present their findings from this trip to the general public on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Student Union Building.

The next group of students will be visiting Tanzania in January 2016. Nickel and Rempel, along with the other UFV students, will be working with and preparing the next interns, whose focus will be on small businesses and roadside stands.

Image: Bernard Rwebangira/ Flickr

While most Canadians rely on corporate grocery chains, Tanzanians buy much of their produce from roadside markets and stands.

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UFV students light up the Fraser Valley UFV Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies partners with local LED lighting business KODIE CHERRILLE THE CASCADE

UFV is working with a local electrical company to install more economic and environmentally friendly city streetlamp bulbs.

Two UFV students from the electronics program have developed a tool that tests the amount of energy streetlights use up — and have been hired by a streetlight retrofitting company before graduating.

Pioneer LED Street Light Inc., in partnership with the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies, are looking to evaluate current streetlights used in the Fraser Valley as well as source and develop more cost- and energyefficient LED lights.

According to UFV electronics technician instructor Avner Bachar, the cities of Abbotsford, Mission, and Chilliwack have expressed interest in participating in the project.

“We can save energy there, while still complying with the specifications for street lighting,” he says.

As part of an assignment, UFV students made an initial analysis of light used on Caen Avenue in Chilliwack. Before testing the lights, they were tasked with designing a tool that would monitor the amount of energy and wasted light that a streetlight uses.

“We want to take those lamp lights that are out there now, and quantify how much light we’re putting out there, and we want to gear it down by dimming them,” Bachar says.

They also monitored the usage of light at the UFV Trades and Technology campus parking lot.

Pioneer Street Light Inc. took an interest in the potential monitoring of a particular apparatus, and hired the students who developed it.

““[This is an] example of how a private company and a university can get together and work on problems.”

Dean of the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies John English says the collaboration between UFV and Pioneer LED Street Light Inc. is another case of post-secondary institutions basing programming in the communities they reside in. “[This is an] example of how a private company and a university can get together and work on problems,” he says.

Cities that have replaced incandescent lightbulbs with more efficient alternatives like LED lights have overall lower energy consumption. According to the Province of B.C.’s Climate Action Toolkit website, the City of Calgary saves $1.7 million annually after retrofitting 37,000 streetlights from 2002 to 2005.

According to Pioneer LED Street Light Inc.’s website, the total cost of operating one streetlight running on high-pressure sodium lightbulbs for a year is $102.08, whereas the annual operation of a streetlight with an LED light is $14.84.

Image: Wikimedia Commons

As part of an assignment, UFV students analyzed the amount of energy local streetlights waste, including the lights at the UFV Trades and Technology campus in Chilliwack.

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Internet distracts — fur real!

RACHEL TAIT CONTRIBUTOR

How much time do you spend on the web? According to an article

by Julia Alexander of the Toronto Sun, Canadians spend more time on the internet than the rest of the world. A further study by Com Score Canada tallied up that in 2015, Canadians visited an average of 80 websites and spent at least 36.3 hours online a month.

Multiply that by 12, if you will, and that’s 1,461 websites and 435.6 hours a year.

So, how does the time add up so fast? What possesses us to visit 80-plus websites a month? What distracts us so powerfully that we are swayed to use up an average of 9.07 hours a week on the internet alone? Two words come to mind: cute and cuddly. While there are many online distractions such as music, games, and sales, the growing trend according to digitaltrends.com seems to be viewing adorable pictures of pets

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Doe-eyed critters aren’t a waste of time, after all. in funny poses, wearing hats, or just being downright cute.

Over the last week, I asked several different people what

distracts them most on the internet, and most claimed they are distracted by pictures of cute animals. On Reddit, there is r/Aww,

a specific subreddit for uploading pictures and videos of anything people find adorable. If you read the beige box at the right-hand side, you will see that it has over 7.8 million readers. This means at least 7.8 million people have looked at cute pictures of animals on this site alone. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are also among the highest ranking sites viewers go to for cute pics. And thanks to online cookies, the internet can provide even more links to cute stuff based on previous searches.

Having so many resources at our disposal for uploading and viewing cute pictures, it is easy to understand why so many have turned to this particular genre to release their playful side. The growing popularity of creating accounts just for animals and pets can be debated as ridiculous, but it is a leading form of entertainment nonetheless. Ironically enough, some owners have fewer followers than their pets do!

After researching and experi-

menting with this genre, my initial belief that it was a waste of time has changed; I now see it as a nice break from the mundane.

For those opposed to the cute and furry, a study led by researcher Hiroshi Nittono at Hiroshima University confirms that looking at cute animals improves work productivity and performance.

According to a study detailed in scientific journal NeuroImage, simply seeing babies triggers a caregiving impulse, so theories suggest that perhaps looking at cute animals feels good because of their similarities to babies.

This logic explains clearly why we find animals so loveable. If you think about it, most people find babies and animals very adorable, and the very mention of those two words brings about a happy feeling inside. So, if you go on the internet and start browsing all the popular sites, remember that from time to time it is beneficial to become distracted staring at the adorable faces of those beautiful animals after all!

The idiots on the other side

Conceptual caricatures make political differences worse ALEX RAKE THE CASCADE

There seem to be two main camps of Canadians invested in politics today: those who are pro-Conservative and those who are, to the very core of their being, not.

When ideologies form drastic dichotomies like this, it’s easy for the two sides to confuse each other, since it seems obvious to everyone that the side they align with must be the correct one. It doesn’t make sense that so many people should hold beliefs so removed from the truth, after all. In order to conceptualize the other side, many people form a simple, but extreme, image in their head that represents the other side as a whole. For the sake of dealing with the concept of the other side, this seems like a useful thing for the mind to do. But this does nothing for actually understanding the other side. Because the other side is not merely conceptual, reducing so many people to caricatures of their political beliefs can only lead to more mutual misunderstanding.

One of the criticisms of Conservative candidates this election period is that too few of them attend public debates. In the online comments under a recent Burn-

abyNow article (which is just a transcription of a fruitless attempt to schedule an interview with some of those absent candidates), a commenter going by the pseudonym “Realist” attempts to refute what the transcription reveals, calling it “lazy, activist journalism.” But Realist reveals that he or she has not read the transcription very carefully when they call out the writer, Jennifer Moreau, for unscrupulously posting the phone number of a Conservative communications person — when it’s really just Moreau telling the employee her own number.

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This is what happens when you reduce a person to their political beliefs.

Both caricatures seek freedom in ways that the other sees as infringing on their own.

The Realist pseudonym brings to mind an episode of Parks and Recreation in which there is a religious cult that calls themselves the “Reasonablists” so that nobody can criticize their groundless ideas without sounding stupid. In the same vein, Realist is the reallife Conservative caricature that non-Conservatives visualize: an angry, anti-journalism, anti-activ-

ism reactionary who makes bombastic, misinformed arguments, but still insists that their reasoning is golden and therefore cannot be reasoned with.

Funnily enough, Realist’s condemnation of the article shows how he or she perceives Moreau as the non-Conservative caricature: a nosy, dishonest activist using the media to further her own impractical agenda, which of course involves forcing people — such as Conservative candidates — to do something they neither want nor should have to do — such as participate in more public

debates.

It sounds like both caricatures seek freedom in ways that the other sees as infringing on their own. The Conservative one wants freedom from instability, such as that caused by losses of power and drastic systematic changes, which journalists could trigger and which activists desire.

On the other hand, the nonConservative one wants freedom from oppressive forces like misinformation, arbitrary power, and the status quo, all of which contribute to people like Realist’s comfort and sense of the world.

With this scheme of how the two sides clash, it should be easy to find where differences could resolve. In fact, if we could just find a way to compromise and allow for both senses of freedom to thrive, political disagreements might not be so heated or so numerous.

Unfortunately, a person’s views cannot always be reduced in such a clear-cut, one-or-the-other way.

For example, one could easily support Bill C-51 for fear of terrorism while opposing the census because it seems like Big Government wants to stick its nose into everything. Humans hold fuckedup, contradictory opinions all the time, and these caricatures aren’t true enough to life that they can usefully serve as models for critiquing those opinions. They are nothing more than strawmen, and it’s important to realize that before debating seriously with somebody. If anyone really wants to critique the other side — and not just their concept of the other side — they must engage with the views that the other side actually holds and expresses.

Of course, it’s pretty hard to engage with those views if candidates won’t participate in public debates. Politics, am I right?

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SNAPSHOTS

Curtailed commentary on current conditions

Images by Brittany Cardinal

C-Building blues

Where’s our Donald Trump?

Cash hassles on campus

Vanessa Broadbent

Catherine Bell

Jeffrey Trainor

Alex Rake

Having worked in the food industry, I understand how important tips are. A lot of food industry workers rely on tips. But what I don’t understand is why every single coffee shop now feels the need to add a tip option on their debit machine.

I’m okay with tipping a waitress who spent the past hour and a half running back and forth from a restaurant kitchen, but if all you did was pour my two-dollar coffee, I don’t feel that there’s a need to leave a tip.

If I think the service was great I might drop my change into the tip jar, but asking me for one while I pay is just too much.

The renovated C-building feels weird. CiVL HQ, The Cascade offices, and the Student Union Society moved to the new Student Union Building, and it’s strange to walk down the hall and not see those familiar people and places. Instead, the rooms are wide open, and there are only lines in the new classrooms’ concrete floor showing where the walls once were. The hallways of C-building just feel so plain now compared to the old hive of activity.

The changes were sorely needed, though. I suppose I’m nostalgic for old times just because they’re gone, and nothing more.

I think Donald Trump is an ignorant, racist, and fear-mongering human. His campaign is riddled with absurd potential policies and radical ideas such as building a wall along America’s border with Mexico.

However, despite all this, is a character like “The Donald” what Canada needs to make us care? Our cookie-cutter politicians never seem to capture the attention of the general Canadian public and, quite frankly, they all give off the same mundane vibe.

Perhaps a character that is so extreme with his policies would make us actually want to vote. Perhaps this would make us want to support other candidates to assure an outrageous candidate would not get elected.

Perhaps having a flashy candidate would get more Canadians to tune-in to leadership debates. Donald Trump is outrageous, but at least he’s bringing new people into the political discussion.

ATMs: what’s up? I often find myself needing change on campus when somebody’s selling snacks or I’ve lost my bus pass for the millionth time. That’s my fault, of course.

What isn’t my fault are the issues with ATMs at this university. About a third of the time I go to the one behind the cafeteria and find that it’s out of order, so I have to go searching for a back-up. Recently, I went to take money out of the ATM in A-building, only to find it’s not there anymore! Is there even an ATM in every building? All this is running around for a money machine can be a real problem when I need bus change at the last minute in order to get to work on time.

Please, ATM gods! Bless us lowly students with more reliable access to cash on campus.

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CULTURE

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W.P. Kinsella marks the close of

a long career in Canadian literature with new story collection Author known for Shoeless Joe speaks at Chilliwack library

MICHAEL SCOULAR CONTRIBUTOR

For better or, according to some, for worse, W.P. Kinsella was part of the popular Canadian literary canon for a stretch of more than a decade.

At his peak, Kinsella’s baseball stories, one of which (Shoeless Joe) was adapted into the 1987 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams, were being published in short story collections and novels every other year.

Kinsella was always a populist, though he was among the names circulating at a time when writers and journalists began to seriously ask, “What is Canadian literature?”

(Atwood’s Survival appeared in the same decade as Kinsella’s debut fiction.) In his introduction to The Thrill of the Grass, Kinsella wrote, “A writer’s first duty is to entertain. If something profound, symbolic, or philosophical can be slipped in, along with the entertainment, so much the better.

But if the element of entertainment is not there, the writing becomes treatise, essay, or autobiography, and the writer has no right to call it fiction. Ultimately, a fiction writer can be anything except boring.”

On the other hand, Kinsella’s other major storytelling project, a series set in the First Nations community of Hobbema, sold well, entertained some audiences, attempted to break outside of the idea that an author can only write from the perspective he has known since birth, and, to a number

Image: Michael Scoular

of writers and critics, perpetuated simplified, racist stereotypes.

In the mid-’90s, Canadian author Thomas King, who was trying and failing to get an Aboriginal anthology series off the ground at the CBC, watched as Kinsella’s Dance Me Outside received a two-season order, adapted as The Rez. Speaking to the Toronto Star, King said it wasn’t about what Kinsella wrote, but how he did it.

“I’m just talking about common sense,” he said. “I don’t mind that Bill writes about natives. I wish he’d do a better job. I don’t mind if CBC or any other network does work about Indians. I wish they’d do a better job.” Where in baseball Kinsella writes honestly about a world he knows, here he claims to be honest about a world he doesn’t know.

Now in the admitted twilight of his career, Kinsella, touring across the country to promote a new collection of his work, The Essential W.P. Kinsella, stopped at the Chilliwack library last week to read, answer audience questions, and sell a few copies of the collection. Appearing in matching turquoise bolo tie, bracelet, shirt, and ring, and marking his place in the new book with a $20 bill from a sale, Kinsella read two stories. The first, the pretentiously titled “Truth,” is from the Hobbema fiction, and gives a good idea of what his critics were criticizing: it’s full of broken English, drunken stereotypes, and broad hockey humour that had the mostly white, senior audience laughing.

“Someday, I’m going to write a story about the time Frank go to an adult literacy class,” goes a line from the story. “Now, just to show off, he read everything in the Wetaskiwin Times every week, even the ads.

One day he seen a notice about a small town hockey tournament that offer a $1000 first prize.” And the story is off.

The other, “The Last Surviving Member of the Japanese Victory Society,” interweaves the history of Japanese internment camps with a late-in-life romance. Kinsella called it a very personal story. Consistent with most of his work, it’s a first-person narrative where women are mostly defined by their attraction to men (they’re supportive, or long-suffering, or elusive fantasies, and they’re introduced by the way they smell), but Kinsella, drawing on his late wife’s last days, also evokes the pain and helplessness of watching a loved one grow weaker and nearer to death in the story.

In the audience conversation that followed, Kinsella reflected on changing tastes and his own waning popularity in literary circles.

“I honestly don’t think I would make it if I were starting out today, I really don’t,” he said. “I was in the right place at the right time for a good number of years.” By the end of the ‘90s, Kinsella says he was off major publishers’ lists of authors worth betting on.

At the same time, Kinsella’s consistency in topic (he’s been linked to magic realism, but it might be more accurate to say Kinsella follows in a tradition whose rules were laid down in the 1950s with Angels in thez Outfield) and in producing new material (he has two completed novels and a short-story collection, but isn’t interested in being published by a small press), if taken outside the peripheral vision of Canada, could have flourished today with a little luck. One can see Field of Dreams, in today’s risk-averse sequel-hungry film industry, turning Kinsella into a baseball-romantic Nicholas Sparks.

Kinsella selected half the stories for this career compilation, and Rick Wilber, an editor from Tachyon Publications, a San Francisco publisher known for science fiction tales (Nancy Kress, Alastair Reynolds), selected the other half. But for Kinsella, there was never any doubt about the legacy of his work.

“I never worry about it,” he said. “I love my work, I laugh out loud when I read it.

I know writers who are never satisfied — even after it’s published they ... want to change it, and that’s a waste of time and energy.”

The one hang-up Kinsella can’t help but comment on is academia. Though his work is stored in many libraries (including about half of his published work in UFV’s collection), Kinsella is rarely taught — his work is competent storytelling, but bears many of the tendencies of an era, more than it does thematic concerns that might open up discussions according to a professor’s progressive syllabus.

“You have to be unreadable to get studied in university,” Kinsella said. “Being incomprehensible is the main thing, because then the professors, if they don’t understand the work, they know the students can’t possibly understand it, so they can never be contradicted.”

Kinsella probably doesn’t know that

UFV’s modern Canadian literature class includes the first volume of Moonshot, a graphic novel collection illustrated and written by indigenous artists. Caitlin Rosberg, reviewing the book for the AV Club, called it a work that “showcases the diversity of thought and experience these creators bring to the medium, gracefully mixing traditional tales and indigenous futurism.” While Kinsella’s sentimental baseball tales (always the underdogs, minor leaguers two or three years away from making the majors, they swear) elicit many positive responses, there’s more than one way to be entertaining, and market pressures are not the only reason older writers fail to enjoy continued success.

For now, Kinsella says, “I think I’m pretty much done writing.” After more than 25 published works, Kinsella no longer has the same desire to prove himself with new books, and has other hobbies to occupy his time.

“I wrote every day in January, I got about 14,000 words written, and it just didn’t work,” he said. “And I said, ‘I don’t think I want to revise this, and I don’t want to start another novel.’ So I haven’t done anything. I play a lot of online Scrabble and Words With Friends, and spend a lot of time on Facebook.”

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Upcoming

Events

Inspirational “Reflections” UFV professor Dennis Greer’s cold wax and oil paint evokes the essence of the West Coast ESRA AL-ABDULJABAR CONTRIBUTOR

September 25 to October 4 creatiValley: A Celebration of Culture

creatiValley is a nine-day celebration of culture in the Fraser Valley kicking off during Culture Days weekend. Free admission. Check out thereach.ca for more info!

September 26 AbbyFest at UFV Abbotsford’s annual multicultural festival is on campus this year.

Enjoy live entertainment, food, vendors and more! Free admission and parking. Runs from 2 to 8 p.m. at the UFV Abbotsford campus.

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Oil paint and cold wax are certainly not the most conventional of mediums, but Dennis Greer was able to marry them beautifully to canvas in his stirring yet meditative “Reflection” exhibition, which finished its run at UFV’s S’elyemtaxwtexw Gallery on September 22.

“The expansiveness and the quiet energy of coastal British Columbia are strongly evident in the imagery and the muted palette of these recent paintings,” said Greer when asked about his inspiration. “For the past few years my work has become more introspective and philosophical, with less emphasis being put on the literal depiction of the landscape and more on the feelings evoked by the experience.”

Experience is something Greer is certainly not lacking. He re-

Image: : Dennis Greer

ceived his post-secondary education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and Sheridan College of Art and Design in Oakville Ontario, and has been employed as an illustrator and graphic designer, as well as a museum display artist. Before coming to UFV, his teaching experience included Vancouver Community College,

the Blanche MacDonald Centre and Design, and Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver.

He also has over fifteen years of experience as an Artistic Coordinator for WorkSafeBC where he designed and illustrated various safety related manuals, posters, and articles.

This exhibition, however, is far removed from government-issued safety guidelines. It demonstrates Greer’s personalized style, one that translates and interprets nature and iconography through saturated layers of transparent glazes. This art is a transformative interpretation and evokes the emotion, memory, and essence of the West Coast landscape.

The purpose of using cold wax as a medium with oil paint is to achieve a translucent quality to the atmospheric pieces, he explained.

“I have been strongly influenced and inspired by the work of the mid-19th century English

landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and by the late 20th century American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko,” he said, “as well as many contemporary painters and photographers, including my colleagues and students at UFV.” Greer believes that artists exist in society because there is a need to observe, reflect, and express truthfully in order to contribute something new and valuable to the collective consciousness. He advises the students at UFV to not be afraid of making mistakes, thereby opening yourself up to new creative possibilities; the rewards are worth it.

“I’ve been incredibly humbled by the positive response to my exhibition, both from students and colleagues,” Greer said. “I’m grateful for all of the comments and philosophical discussions prompted by the show. It’s been a good experience.”

September 26 Mad Hatter’s Tea A nonsensical afternoon with lively music, where tea is sipped and laughter is shared. Wear your maddest hat! 1 pm and 3:30 pm at the Reach. $16, or $15 each if you bring a friend.

Below the Belt

Wax on? Wax off?

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September 25 to 27 Culture Days AAC hosts five free and interactive arts- and culture-related activities as part of this provincial celebration. This three-day event will offer thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities! Visit abbotsfordartscouncil.com for the full schedule of events.

CORRECTION In Issue 21 of The Cascade, the Upcoming Events column incorrectly stated that the photo exhibition Betrayed: Portraits of Strength would run on September 12. The correct dates of the exhibition are September 21 to 30.

We also incorrectly stated that the Graphic Guild’s drop-in drawing sessions would be on September 11 and 12. They are held regularly on the fourth Tuesday of the month.

We apologize for any confusion these errors may have caused.

SEXPERT

To wax, or not to wax? That is the question. And disturbingly, it’s a question that gets asked far too freely. Since when is this an appropriate inquiry? What is your major? How do you take your coffee? Oh, and do you wax? If you are reading this thinking, “I haven’t been asked if I wax,” just wait. Some ill-mannered bonehead will ask you soon enough.

I’m not sure why we abandoned the warmth and security of the ‘70s bush, but for the most part, we did. And we replaced it with patchy hack-jobs and painful clear-cuts. Don’t get me wrong, a fresh shave or wax looks and feels great ... after the swelling goes down. And soon enough prickly re-growth and uncomfortable ingrowns crash your panty party.

But let’s take a moment to make a pros and cons list to be sure we consider every angle of this barbaric custom before making a decision.

Pro: oral sex! It is nearly impossible to keep your partner away from the silky softness of a hairfree pubis, which is great ‘cause it feels amazing this way!

Con (or maybe pro): Going bare

Image: Wikimedia Commons

Maybe clear-cutting isn’t always the way to go. will definitely make you feel extra sexy. You will feel every sensation when you walk or sit and you may not be able to keep your own hands out of your pants.

Pro: According to 78 per cent of women and 57 per cent of men who also wax or shave, it looks incredibly sexy.

Con: Unsightly razor rash and ingrown hair are likely to surround the few actual hair-free days in your shaving/waxing cycle-not so sexy.

Pro: Waxing slows hair re-

growth.

Con: Shaving speeds up hair regrowth.

Con: Pubic hair has a purpose.

STDs such as herpes and HPV are

I’m not sure why we abandoned the warmth and security of the ‘70s bush, but for the most part, we did.

spread via skin-to-skin contact.

Shaving and waxing leave the skin inflamed and / or cut, leaving it susceptible to infection. A layer of pubes will help shelter your tender sex organs from direct contact.

So we’ve confirmed that a fresh shave or wax is very sexy and can lead to oral. This is a compelling argument. On the other hand, pubic hair is also sexy, and liberating. If you choose to shave or wax, all power to you. But perhaps take a moment to consider if you are “landscaping” for yourself or if you are falling victim to societal pressures. Girls are growing up believing that body hair is unattractive or masculine and should be removed at the first sign of its existence. This stigma only causes harm and can lead to body shame. I say give the razor a vacation. Hair removal, no matter the area, is an option, not a requirement. We don’t need to clear-cut. A good trim and a bit of selective logging will offer the same clean, sexy look and sensations as ripping it all off. And more importantly, it will give you a layer of protection when you are bumping fuzzies with your partner.

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STUDY BREAK CULTURE

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CROSSWORD Is it?

by VALERIE FRANKLIN

ACROSS 3. Not that. (4) 8. Chewy, inedible bit of meat. (7) 10. ‘70s rockers famous for painting their faces. (4) 11. British name for what we call potato chips. (6) 12. Eeyore’s favourite food. (8) 13. Hunger Games heroine. (7)

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BY ANTHONY BIONDI

SPACED

The Weekly Horoscope

Fog. (4) Just put your lips together and blow. (7) A clenched hand. (4) Where you wear a watch. (5) Out of place, wrong. (5) Green nut commonly found in stockings. (9) Champagne favoured by rappers. (7)

Last issue’s crossword ACROSS 1. SYLLABUS 4. PARKING 7. WEEPING 10. LABSCIENCE 11. NETFLIX 12. COFFEE 13. SLEEP DOWN 2. LUNCH 3. SWEATER 5. RAIN 6. GPA 8. ESSAY 9. TEXTBOOK

Star Signs from Moira Mysteriosa

Aquarius: Jan 20 to Feb 18: The stars tell me you will find answers in reruns of Star Trek. But perhaps that is because the stars enjoy seeing themselves on the screen.

Gemini: May 21 to June 21: Did you know that the greatest number of espresso shots you can order from Starbucks at one time is 99? Bear that in mind this week.

Pisces: Feb 19 to March 20: Your spirit animal is the lawn behind the SUB. Bask in its damp, mushroomy joys!

Cancer: June 22 to July 22: Start wearing purple. Also, start listening to Gogol Bordello.

Aries: March 21 to April 19: Have patience; Autocorrect is just trying to help, no matter how much you wish it would go duck itself.

Leo: July 23 to Aug 22: This week is bad for barbershop quartets. Maintain a distance from your musical friends and their oddly charming harmonies.

Taurus: April 20 to May 20: Change is good. Accept change when it comes to you. Parking isn’t cheap.

Virgo: Aug 23 to Sept 22: It is of utmost importance that you only buy chunky, natural peanut butter. Ah, you don’t eat peanut butter?

Very smart, dear reader.

Libra: Sept 23 to Oct 22: Take a break from Pinterest. Your loved ones are tired of eating from mason jars.

Scorpio: Oct 23 to Nov 21: Learn to accept your mistakes. We can’t always be right. Except for Moira. Always listen to Moira, dear reader.

Sagittarius: Nov 22 to Dec 21: Coughing is lucky for you this week.

Contract a cold as soon as possible.

Capricorn: Dec 22 to Jan 19: Learn as much about giant squid as you can. It may or may not be relevant to your future survival.

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The Style Counsel

A better version of the best man THOMAS PALAKON RACONTEUR-IN-RESIDENCE

Weekly advice on fashion and manners for the modern UFV gent, The Style Counsel will be a regular feature in The Cascade’s Culture section. Questions, comments or suggestions may be submitted to Mr. Palakon through seamus@ufvcascade.ca.

Mr. Palakon, I’ve been asked to be the best man for a good friend’s wedding. Any tips on how to handle all the duties?

I’m especially nervous about the speech.

– Best Of Male Buddies Thanks for writing, BOMB, and congrats on this honour. While there is a lot of work ahead of you, you will also have some fun and be able to say you were part of a dear friend’s great day. At the very least, you’ll be getting a free meal and a few drinks, so endeavor to show some advance gratitude by remembering these basics.

First, it’ll be your job to get the groomsmen organized for their fittings, or at the very least ensure everyone is dressed appropriately and to strictest adherence to whatever the dress code is. Weddings have gotten more casual, and while some may sniff over the move away from tuxedos, I think a sharply tailored suit and boutonniere is more than appro-

Whether it’s keeping the rings safe or nailing the speech — you got this. priate. (And what, exactly, is so aspirational about renting a piece of clothing that was last worn by some spotty-faced high school urchin as he tried to paw at his prom date?) Speak to the groom, obviously, but also consult the bride on the smaller details, such as tie choices and pocket squares.

These touches are very much on her radar, I assure you.

You’ll also be tasked with orga-

nizing the bachelor party. Again, these may not be the bacchanals they once were, but I can almost guarantee one of the groomsmen will be insisting on Vegas, strippers, and various levels of consciousness-altering substances.

Ignore him. Go to the groom, find out what he wants, and make the appropriate arrangements.

Paintball, golf, casinos, a whiskey or wine tasting, a blow-out

Image: Mai Le / Flickr

meal at an upscale steakhouse — these have all become popular as stag bash ideas. If you indeed intend to support your local arts scene by visiting a dance cabaret of the night, just make sure everyone is comfortable with it, and keep them as well-behaved as possible. (Yes, that’s your job too, especially in the era of mobile phone cameras and The Facebook.) Quick addendum: If your

night involves poker and cigars, I strongly recommend a keep-itfriendly $5 buy-in and Cohibas.

Finally, prep your speech well in advance. Open with a compliment to the bridesmaids on their beauty and effortless effervescence. Move on to a brief mention of how you and the groom became great friends, share an amusing anecdote about youthful foibles, and follow that with a story cementing the groom’s impeccable character and integrity. At one point, speak directly to the bride, make eye contact, and thank her for coming into your friend’s life. And for pity’s sake, keep it clean. It’s your goal here to remind people of what a great lad the groom is, not relive past sexual missteps or alcoholfuelled bust-ups. Lastly, keep it short. Three to four minutes is plenty. You’re not the only one waiting to eat a free meal and check out the open bar.

Apparently, past traditions for the best man included having to stand in the groom’s place if he were challenged to a duel.

(That’s fallen out of favour, but if it should come up, always choose pistols over sabres.) While your job here is no longer life-anddeath, I strongly suggest you get organized and start planning on your mate’s behalf. A gentleman’s first wedding is, after all, very special.

One girl’s fashion journey, from five to 50 ESRA AL-ABDULJABAR CONTRIBUTOR

Five years old: You’re in kindergarten. Your mom dresses you in a pink dress, squeaker sneakers, and your favourite hairstyle, pigtails, using those decorated Barbie hair elastic bands.

Ten years old: You’re still wearing your favourite all-pink outfit, a Hannah Montana shirt, and even pink jeans. Your hair grew longer and you’ve now started to do ponytails and braids for yourself. You have your pink backpack and matching lunch box. You just got your first coloured chapstick and your friends are so jealous.

Fourteen years old: You’re in high school now. You wear leggings, a hoodie, and Uggs every single day. You’re now allowed to use eyeliner but your right and left eyes fail to look the same — not even close.

Eighteen years old: Your makeup is now always on point because you’re grown up. All your friends have conquered it too.

You have mastered the science of winged eyeliner and your eyebrows are always on fleek. You’re in love with those high-waisted skirts and purses. You bring a purse to school but it doesn’t fit your binders.

Twenty-five years old: You’ve been in university for a while now. You dress professionally with black skirts and white shirts or sometimes just jeans and flats.

On exam days, you wear your favourite sweatpants and hoodie along with the ever-popular messy bun.

Thirty years old: You wear your favourite white dress, a wedding dress, with a white pair of heels.

You love it even more than that pink prom dress you wore years ago. You now wear glasses because of all the hard work and

studying you did in university, but it paid off with your dream job.

Thirty-seven years old: You’ve stopped wearing makeup, and you’re too busy to do your hair so you just leave it down. You wear your favourite pair of jeans and the same black sweater to work.

Your daughter is now five and you dressed her up — in a pink dress, squeaker sneakers, and her favourite hairstyle, pigtails.

Fifty years old: Your daughter bought you Capri pants today and a white baggy shirt; she knows the type of style you like.

You thank her and take her to your room for a surprise. You give her a pink dress, your prom dress.

She tears up.

Fashion trends, like everything in life, will always go in and out of style. Accept and remember those that hold a story and meaning behind them.

Pretty in pink: the author at age three.

Image: Esra Al-Abduljabar

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Film

To grandparents’ house we go!

Shyamalan’s The Visit reminds us that old folks can be a little weird

CHARTS Daze 1 Teen Morning world Gogo 2 David Vicksburg Call De Pirate 3 Coeur Roses

4 Mika No Place in Heaven Healer 5 Faith Cosmic Troubles Pepper and His 6 Gregory Problems

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Chorus! Chorus! Chorus!

Les Jupes Some Kind of Family

Impala 8 Tame Currents Cliché 9 Nouveau Walk in My Shadow Maiden 10 Iron The Book of Souls Trapper 11 Blitzen All Across This Land

12 Slayer Repentless 13 Calexico Edge of the Sun Bathing Culture 14 Pure Pray for Rain

15 Failure The Heart is a Monster Order 16 New Restless [single]

17 Ought Sun Coming Down Lasth 18 Single Single Lasth

19 Foals What Went Down Mercy 20 Oh When We Talk About Love

Shuffle DAVE CUSICK PROGRAM DIRECTOR / CANDLEJACK

Just thought I’d wax poetic about a few songs this week. Light some candles, let’s get some music on.

Steve Taylor “Meltdown at Madame Tussaud’s” In the 1980s, non-conformists in the Christian church had few sanctified musical options, but Steve Taylor was at the top of the list for those who knew. Taylor used the image of a wax museum overheating as a metaphor for the inescapability of death, and musically, the song could have been used in a montage sequence in any of John Hughes’ films.

Stray Cats “Sixteen Candles” And speaking of John Hughes films, you’ve most likely seen The Breakfast Club, but probably not Sixteen Candles, another of his high school films, which came out the previous year and also starred Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. Ringwald’s family have forgotten her 16th birthday, nerds have stolen her underwear and are charging admission for viewing them (there was no internet yet, so … ), and her crush is oblivious to her. But maybe, just maybe, we’ll all come of age by the end.

Monkees “Daydream Believer” “The shaving razor’s cold and it stings … ” Nightmares On Wax “Nights Interlude“ If you’ve listened to the radio show This American Life (see review on page 14), you’ve heard the first song on the first album by Nightmares On Wax, which happens to sample Quincy Jones’ “Summer in the City” from 20 years prior.

Weezer “Surf Wax America” My friend Drew has lots of serious bands he’s in, but also puts together a Weezer cover band that plays one show a year. This summer, I stood in a sweaty basement as they blistered through songs off the 1994 self-title debut, known as the Blue Album. That was some joy.

Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me” “...in the name of love!”

KAT MARUSIAK

THE CASCADE

NOTICE: This review contains only very minor spoilers, and should not ruin your viewing experience.

M. Night Shyamalan is back at it again with The Visit, his first horror / thriller since Devil was released five years ago.

Shyamalan once more brings his unique blend of PG-13 horror and comedy into a film far more satisfying then some of the infamously terrible offerings he has put out in past — The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, and The Last Airbender were all generally considered failures. This damaged his reputation, and, combined with his tendency to include a twist in his stories, created a general trepidation for viewers going into his new releases. Not only is there an underlying worry that the movie may be another disappointment, but many viewers also find themselves distracted by trying to predict if there will be a twist, and if so, what it might be: something more realistic? Or possibly sci-fi? Or maybe paranormal like The Sixth Sense? For others, though, not knowing what to expect is just part of the fun.

As with most of his movies, the story takes place (and was filmed) in Pennsylvania, and starts off in the city of Philadelphia. The film is centred on two siblings: 15-year-old Rebecca (Olivia DeJonge) and her 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) who live in the city with their mother, Paula (Kathryn Hahn). Paula is estranged from her parents, who get in touch at last and express their desire to finally meet their grandchildren. The kids take a bus out to a small, rural town, and “Pop-Pop” (Peter McRobbie) and “Nana” (Deanna Dunagan) take them to their farmhouse ... but naturally, this being

a horror movie, all is not as it seems.

Pennsylvania is known for being full of strange occurrences, weird rural communities and haunted places, making it an ideal location for the film, with a perfect atmosphere of uncertainty and isolation.

Rebecca is an amateur filmmaker, and we see the story in real-time through her camera lens in foundfootage style. It’s worth mentioning for those who are not big fans of this type of perspective that this device is used tastefully; you shouldn’t feel motionsick or be disappointed with the quality of the visuals. It also adds an extra element of fear, making the spectator feel as though they are actually seeing the events through the eyes of the children.

The Visit does a good job at keeping a constant underlying element of suspense, as both the children and the audience try to understand exactly what is going on with the grandparents. Many viewers can expect a few decent scares; the movie effectively builds up tension in many scenes using several different elements. The musical score also does an effective job of adding to the overall creepy vibe.

The actors do not disappoint. The endearing performances by the children especially help the audience to get more involved with the plot and become emotionally invested in the characters. Ed Oxenbould brings a lot of the comedic aspect to the film as Tyler, who is quick with jokes; at 13, he’s already a wannabe ladies’ man aspiring to be a freestyle rapper with the moniker “T-Diamond Stylus.”

Hopefully this is the beginning of another successful, upward trend for Shyamalan. As with most movies, there are a few unexplained or questionable points throughout the story, but overall, horror / thriller buffs, faithful Shyamalan fans, and skeptics alike should enjoy this cryptic tale of family drama and dark secrets.

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Albums

Unknown Mortal Orchestra brings back the ‘70s GLEN ESS

CONTRIBUTOR

Multi-Love, the third release by Portland psych-pop band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, may just be the most magnificently eclectic record of the year. “Painstakingly made” doesn’t even begin to describe how much time and effort was put into shaping the sound of Multi-Love; from the use of handcrafted synths to the stockpiling and usage of a bevy of retro gear, frontman and producer Ruben Nielson shaped every audible hiss and pop on the record to a borderline obsessive degree. Multi-Love is a many-faceted and incredibly varied record, bouncing from a fuzzy, lo-fi pop aesthetic to a Motown-by-wayof-Queen style, all awash with crackling guitars, crunched and compressed drums, airy synths, and Nielson’s shuddering, shivering vocals buried deep behind a vocoder.

Despite the frankly obscene amounts of varied styles and genres Multi-Love dashes through, Nielson’s lyrics hover around generally the same theme

Lyrically, Multi-Love focuses on exploring new love.

— a breathlessly romantic take on an unexplored, fresh new love which acts as a central point around which the album experiments sonically. In this particular case, the relationship Nielson discusses, can be summed up as a happy new journey one that

simply grows, feelings swelling till they very nearly burst, emotions swirling and colliding into even more painfully sweet combinations. Nielson, for much of the album, simply sounds at ease and at times irrationally happy with the growing pains and oddly

complex nature of a relationship.

Style-wise, the album takes many of its cues from ‘70s psychedelia with a dash of disco / funk beats. Its title track and album opener, “Multi-Love,” takes the trippy, otherworldly vibe to an almost decadent degree, and is then quickly followed up by “Like Acid Rain,” which manages to sound like the auditory lovechild of Prince and Isaac Hayes.

Heading into the middle portion of the album, you’re treated to the album’s stand-out track, “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone,” which is far and away the easiest song to get lost in and dance to. With clapping, spacey synths and an irresistible bass-line, the song stands out as one of the best tracks of the year. The second half of the album, while still a fantastic achievement and chock full of bright moments, doesn’t really come close to the incredibly high standard set by “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone.” The closest the back end comes to matching it is in “The World Is Crowded,” which carries with it a nostalgic sense, mimicking the traditional, old school Motown-sound, funky

bass-line and all. The album comes to an end with “Puzzles,” a seven-minute track involving the sounds of cars driving by and broken glass before giving away abruptly into a soft rock ballad which just as abruptly switches gear into a rougher guitar lead track, turning from a nearly poprock song into ‘70’s classic rock in the style of Led Zeppelin and Phish. It’s an incredibly varied track to end an album that showcases and combines an almost dizzying array of genres.

UMO’s Multi-Love certainly stacks up well against their contemporaries, with “MultiLove,” “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone,” and “The World Is Crowded” in particular standing out as phenomenal tracks that truly deserve a special place in everybody’s library.

Glen Ess hosts Rhythm & Rhyme on CIVL 101.7FM every Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Keith Richards’ latest solo record goes back to his roots MARTIN CASTRO

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“I love my sugar but I love my honey too / I’m a greedy mother, you don’t know what to do,” moans Richards during the first track of his latest release, Crosseyed Heart. “Ooh, she’s so sweet but she drives me round the bend / I go round the corner and find another friend / I got a crosseyed heart.” Acoustic blues accompanies Richards until he states: “Alright, that’s all I got,” and launches into “Heartstopper,” which proves to the listener that regardless of Richards’ age, he can still rock.

The record is greatly comprised of blues and rock ‘n’ roll, with a few exceptions, one of them being the ska “Love Overdue” — which might seem far-fetched for a musician who is credited with pretty much inventing a genre alongside the Beatles, but Richards seems as at-home in this tropicalflavoured track as he ever did while cranking out rock in the ‘60s.

Although grounded by guitar-driven rock, Crosseyed Heart delves into several genres, including straight-out pop during “Something For Nothing,” a track that’s probably the poppiest thing Richards has ever come up with. (The chorus is literally two or three back-up singers repeating “something for nothing” four times.)

However, Richards’ presence resonates throughout the record, and if there’s one particular thing that’s clear, it’s that he derives great pleasure from making music of

Keith Richards does what he knows best on Crosseyed Heart. any genre. This pleasure (I’m not going to call it happiness, because at times it seems as though he isn’t happy, but is rather embracing a kind of self-awareness as he ages) is ever-present.

“Nothin’ on Me” sounds like a late-’80s jam track. It’s probably the grooviest track on the record, and seems like the appropriate thing to have playing in a car while road tripping across America wearing nothing but denim, cowboy boots, and a pair of aviators. “Suspicious” is a ballad that seems a bit too cheesy to be authentic, but its saving grace is the way Richards de-

livers verses in that raspy growl that passes for his voice nowadays. However weary he might sound, it should be noted that Richards sings exceptionally well throughout the entire record; sure, he might have a much lower voice now than he did in his youth, and it might be gravelly as hell, but the man can still hit just about every note he sets out to hit.

I’m sure many years of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs are at least partially responsible for this, but if I didn’t know that Keith Richards is English and white, I wouldn’t have guessed it by listening to Crosseyed

Heart. The track “Substantial Damage” sounds like something that should be blasting out of every pickup and Camaro haulin’ ass out of, into, or around Texas.

There’s funk and traditional blues all over this thing, and if it proves anything, it’s that despite Richards’ age, he has the energy and rowdiness of a jackhammer.

Crosseyed Heart proves that, despite a literal lifetime of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, Keith Richards is as lively and passionate as he ever was — and his music reflects that.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 www.ufvcascade.ca

Podcast

This American Life and you DAVE CUSICK

CONTRIBUTOR

The term “podcast” was coined in 2003 by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, and if you’re still confused as to what it is, it’s an mp3 file that can download directly to your computer, phone, or, yes, iPod, as the name suggests. If you’re still confused: okay, it’s radio.

The first radio show I ever fell in love with was This American Life. In 2000, my long drives from the Lower Mainland back to my native Portland, Oregon would have me scouring the radio dial.

There’s a term in radio called a “driveway moment,” which means that although you’ve arrived at your destination, you stay in your car until you’ve finished listening to the story. It’s the mark of a good and compelling piece.

I had my first driveway moment with This American Life 15 years ago, in my parents’ driveway, as the hosts were talking with kids at a Christian camp; one kid in particular felt like an outsider because she was agnostic. I could re-

late, and had a few tears to dry off before I went in the house.

A year later, I was totally hooked, and after planes and their passengers were used to destroy buildings and their occupants one day on the East Coast, one single hour of This American Life provided more closure and context for me than the countless preceding hours of news coverage (and their newly-introduced bottom-of-screen tickers).

But the show doesn’t just contain sad or touching moments.

I’ve also laughed my belly sore listening to it. A rookie cop whose routine house-call ends in a civilian’s broken nose and a squirrel and couch in flames. A smalltown opening night of Peter Pan that devolves into fiasco, including a flying apparatus ineptly operated, Captain Hook’s actual hook flying off to reveal the actor’s hand, the building’s fire alarm going off, and an audience of otherwise polite people eventually howling for more blood.

Over the years, the show has developed the capacity for long-

form journalism as well. In 2008, when everyone was struggling to understand the beginnings of the global financial meltdown, This American Life created the episode “The Giant Pool of Money,” which explained how pent-up demand for investments led to riskier loans to American homebuyers, which artificially inflated home prices and caused the subsequent crash when many homebuyers couldn’t repay. This year, they aired two two-hour shows on persisting racial divisions, one focusing on issues with the police, the other on segregation and integration in schools.

By the way, don’t let the name This “American” Life throw you; the show isn’t so specifically American (or un-Canadian) that it’s unrelatable. Many of its stories take place all over the world. A World War II concentration camp in China that held, among others, Girl Guides. A camp in Mexico that’s designed to simulate an illegal nighttime desert border crossing as a team-building exercise for corporate staffers. Several

episodes of war reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You might be wondering how all these different kinds of stories somehow all form one cohesive show. I saw Ira Glass, the show’s creator and host, speak in Vancouver last spring, and he said that the principle driving the show’s producers is that they’re just trying to amuse themselves.

They don’t tell a story out of obligation, or because a topic is popular, but because they find a story interesting and want to see where it goes. When you first hear this approach, it might seem selfcentred, hedonistic, or unjournalistic, but it’s actually really good and simple creative advice: follow what interests you, it’ll probably interest someone else, too.

And hopefully, This American Life will interest you.

Cascade Arcade

Fighting Satan and making friends

We Know the Devil takes players on an introspective foray into childhood fears, friendship, and identity CATHERINE BELL

CONTRIBUTOR

We Know The Devil is a psychological horror visual novel-style game for browsers, available for $6.66 USD from datenighto.com.

The game was written by Aevee Bee, with art by Mia Schwartz and music by Alec Lambert. We Know The Devil is about three teens at a summer camp for troubled children who are forced to spend 12 hours together in a cabin on the outskirts of camp, waiting for the devil to arrive. Unfortunately for them, in this case, the devil is very, very real. We Know The Devil is entirely narrative-driven, and the only choice that the player makes is to pick which of the three protagonists get to work together and which one gets left out at each junction. At the end of the night, those trapped in the cabin will have to face the devil together.

The game is about two hours long if you’re fast, and up to four if you take your time. However, if you want to understand the game as much as you can, you’re going to have to replay each route at least once. Something some-

one says in one route can help you realize the truth behind what someone else said earlier, and rereading something can give you an epiphany about what a character really means.

The three main characters have a wide spectrum of personalities.

Venus is shy and aims to please, Jupiter is the “good kid” who wants to keep her friends out of trouble, and Neptune is strong and lashes out at others. Depending on which character resonates with you the most, you can think of one as your protagonist; how-

ever, all three characters are equally represented in the narrative. The game’s plot doesn’t explicitly state what exactly each character is struggling with besides the description of “queer” on the store page, but over the course of the game’s three routes

The game never explicitly tells you what each character is struggling with — that’s for you to decide.

and final “true ending,” the player can piece together the stories of the main cast.

Before I played We Know The Devil, I had actively sought out spoilers. Even when people related so deeply to the game that they had written an essay. Reading them didn’t help me figure out what it was about.

You must try to have empathy with the characters to understand how and why they act the way they do. If you don’t, the game will probably fall flat for you, as you won’t understand how the narrative progresses. This doesn’t mean you have to have the same feelings as the protagonists, but that you might learn how other people might feel through this game.

We Know The Devil is ultimately about coming to terms with the parts of your identity that are demonized by others, and learning to help each other cope and become our true selves in the face of hatred. It’s a game about how adults impose their beliefs on children, and how children repeat what they’re told without believing in it themselves. It’s a game you have to play if you want to learn more about yourself.

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Upcoming

Events

September 27 Kidney Walk The Kidney Foundation is looking for participants and volunteers for the 2015 Kidney Walk. The event is at Mill Lake park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information contact Barbara Valentine at barbarav@ kidney.bc.ca or (604) 736-9775 ext.

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September 24 to 27 BCHL Showcase The Chilliwack Chiefs are the host team for the fourth annual Bauer BCHL Showcase this weekend. Day passes are $15 for adults, $10 for youth. For more information or to purchase tickets visit bchl.ca.

Every Wednesday Free yoga classes Join the UFV yoga club for free yoga every Wednesday. Classes are from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Great Hall in the Student Union Building. For more information visit the yoga club’s Facebook page at facebook. com/ufvyogaclub.

Ongoing Drop-in organized sports Now that school is back in gear, drop in sports are beginning again.

Stop by the Envision Athletics Centre to join in basketball, pickle ball/badminton, soccer, volleyball, rugby, or ball hockey games. No registration is required and anyone with a valid UFV campus card can participate. For more information and to see the full schedule visit ufvcascades.ca/rec.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 www.ufvcascade.ca

The connection between mental health and concussions HARVIN BHATHAL CONTRIBUTOR

As someone who devotes countless hours to sports of all kinds, I know that injuries are inevitable. I have torn the same muscle in my arm twice, sprained my media collateral ligament (MCL), hyperextended my knee, and sprained my ankles and fingers an innumerable amount of times. I am probably forgetting a couple more that I do not remember. That’s because remembering has been difficult ever since I suffered three concussions consecutively in three weeks. Yes, three concussions in three weeks.

I’ve learned that if a doctor advises you to take it easy by avoiding physical activities or things that will cause too much strain on your brain, listen. It is not as easy as it seems to follow, especially if you are an athlete. All of my concussions were mild, but regardless, it was a difficult time. I experienced common symptoms of concussions such as dizziness, blurry vision, nausea, memory problems, and the worst of all, headaches.

The headaches caused me the most trouble by far, because whenever I tried to focus it put too much strain on my brain, and in turn, a persistent headache ensued. To say the least, the following two months were not the greatest for me.

As tough as my experience was, it is not even close to what others with more serious concussions have endured. Possibly the two most infamous cases of concus-

sions are Marc Savard in the NHL and Junior Seau in the NFL. Savard suffered a grade 2 concussion on March 7, 2010, limiting his season to 41 games. He returned in time for the playoffs, but the damage was done. January 23, 2011 would be Marc Savard’s judgement day: the day of his last game played in the NHL. Due to suffering his second concussion in 10 months, Savard was shut down for the rest of the season, cutting his season short to 25 games. Recurring symptoms of post-concussion syndrome soon followed, and it has been over four years since Marc Savard last played in the NHL. When Savard was asked about his quality of life in an interview with TSN 1050, he said, “I’m doing good. Things are getting better for me. I still have some issues, but I can’t complain; life’s pretty good … ” The issues that the former Bruin refers to are migraines and seeing ”dots” in hot weather. The concussions I suffered had no such lasting effects as Marc Savard’s had caused for him; however, the same cannot be said for Junior Seau, who was only 43 years old at his time of death. Unlike Savard, Seau’s judgment day on May 2, 2012 would serve to be the last day of his life, as he committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest at his home.

The death of such a beloved figure caused the 2011 suicide of former NFL player Dave Duerson to be recalled, as the way in which Seau committed suicide was eerily simi-

lar. Duerson, requesting his brain be studied for brain trauma, left a suicide note. Although Seau had no prior reported history of concussions, his ex-wife stated that he did in fact sustain concussions during his playing career. Reportedly, Junior Seau had suffered from insomnia for the last seven years of his life, and was taking a prescription drug commonly prescribed for sleep disorders called Zolpidem (brand name Ambien).

Seau was speculated to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that dozens of deceased former NFL players have been found to have had. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered that Seau did in fact show definitive signs of CTE. The death of Junior Seau served as a wake-up call for the league and its players when it came to concussions and their connection to mental health. Compared to 10 years ago, players are now much more aware of concussions and their short- and long-term effects.

Due to this, a drove of NFL players retired in the 2015 offseason. Patrick Willis, who was one of the best linebackers of his generation and a future Hall of Famer, was the first to retire, doing so at the young age of 30. While 30 years old may not seem too young, rising stars such as the linebackers Chris Borland and Jason Worilds soon followed suit and respectively retired at the ages of 24 and 27. A fear of future

mental health problems was the prime reason for retiring, and I do not blame them. American football has the highest chance out of all sports to suffer a concussion at 75 per cent. Although it is suspected that more and more players will retire in the future due to the risks of playing the sport, it is surprising that more players haven’t retired already. With that outstanding mark being as high as it is, it is shocking that football is the most popular sport in America, and by a wide margin.

The world as a whole is becoming more knowledgeable about mental health problems, as the information has never been more available then it is now. Because I knew about these aforementioned players and the issues they have faced in regards to concussions and future mental health problems, I knew that I would have to be more careful. In order to live the life I wanted, I would have to take caution, both now and in the future. Having already had three concussions in my young life, the risk of having future concussions and mental health problems is higher than I want it to be. Take it from someone who has experienced this first hand; even if you are not an athlete, educate yourself on the issue of mental health. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

Healthy Eating

Portion control is key to healthy eating habits ESRA AL-ABDULJABAR

CONTRIBUTOR

Eating healthy can be a challenge for a lot of people. This is because the more you eat, the larger your stomach expands, and it needs more food to be filled up. But there’s no need to panic — there are many possible ways to shrink our stomachs in a healthy, nontormenting manner.

It seems like most people who go on a diet to lose weight try to stop eating their regular meals, and essentially starve themselves. This is not the greatest idea, since you will end up hungry and then most likely eat twice the amount you would normally have eaten. The main focus should be trying to reduce your food intake gradually, and then developing healthier, more nutritious eating habits. While switching to healthier eating isn’t

always the most fun, there are a few things you can do to make the transition a little easier.

Cutting down on soda, chips, chocolate, fries, and doughnuts can be tough, but all these junk foods don’t contain any true nutritional value. You can still eat chocolate, but try switching to dark chocolate and convincing your mind that it tastes good, and that it’s all worth it in the end. Introduce yourself to new types of fruits every day, figure out which ones you like, and make smoothies. Work out daily.

It doesn’t have to be at the gym — you can start practicing pullups, sit-ups, or even go up and down your staircase multiple times before rewarding yourself with a fruity meal.

Drink hot tea in the morning, or try recipes for different teas that are healing and stress-relieving: a yarrow and wild mint

tea blend for digestion, valerian root and juniper berries to relieve stress, or dandelion leaf and root for weight management. Drinking herbal tea also decreases the likelihood of acquiring some types of cancer, so double the win! Also, don’t forget to drink at least 1.9 litres of water every day to keep your body hydrated, while also filling your stomach.

Change things like the type of bread you eat; brown bread is much healthier. Of course not everything healthy will taste better, but don’t get discouraged, and stay motivated to reach your goal.

Keep a daily track of the amount of calories you gain every day. This is a good way to remember how much you need to reduce these calories each day.

The more effort you start putting into your diet, the guiltier you will feel if you go back to your

old unhealthy habits, so keep it up — guilt yourselves!

However, it’s important to keep in mind that thin doesn’t necessarily mean healthy. I know from personal experience that I could eat chips and chocolate cake all day and not gain weight because I have a higher metabolism than others. That didn’t mean I was healthy— I needed to start eating more veggies and fruits and drinking more water. I realized that the healthier my diet was, the stronger my memory became. Even my study habits became much better. The point is, if you think it’s time to change your eating habits, just get up and do it — consider it a goal you’ve set for yourself, and strive to achieve it. A healthy body is a healthy mind, and we all need good minds to survive the semester.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 www.ufvcascade.ca

Men’s soccer season preview Tom Lowndes talks about the upcoming season and his first year as head coach VANESSA BROADBENT

THE CASCADE

As the Cascades men’s soccer team finish their home-opener weekend, Tom Lowndes talks about his first year as head coach of the team, and what his expectations are for the upcoming season.

How was the training this summer?

Preseason went well. We had a trip down to Portland towards the end of our preseason and we go to play four games down there; we played some really good teams. We played SFU up here during the second week of our training camp and tied 1-1, so that was a good experience.

I think all in all we played around eight or nine games in the preseason, and mixed it up with some high intensity training as well away from the field. I’m really pleased with how it went and I think it put us in good stand for the season.

What’s your training regimen like?

In the week leading up to the game, the first couple days we’ll go a bit harder. We’ll get some stuff with ball work going, and then we’ll start thinking about our opponent for the weekend. We would have already scouted our opponent and watched them live, and watched the video of their previous games, and then I sit down with my staff and we talk about our game plan for the weekend. And then we devise a session based upon what we want our plan to be for the weekend. We do that on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursdays are a bit lighter — we work

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on set pieces and position-specific stuff to get ready for the games on Friday and Saturday.

What are you looking to add to the team this year?

I think this season we’ve got to keep it a bit more consistent. We find it easy to get up for the big games, games against UBC, UVic, Trinity, games against our rivals, but we struggle to kind of impose ourselves against up-and-coming programs like Thompson Rivers, UNBC, and UBC Okanagan. We really struggle to get up for those games, so I think consistency is the main thing; just kind of be our best for every game and be ready to go.

How have you seen the team grow over the last year?

It’s been quite cool to watch, especially for me going from assistant coach to head coach. They’re a great group. I think a big thing is they get along so well. Our first-years have come in and they’ve meshed really well. There’s no gaps between the first-years and our fourth-year senior players. Everyone gets along really well, and they just want to work hard, and they just want to do well. They’ve shown that in preseason. They gel together, and when they do that, and when we have a team that’s willing to fight and battle and go through a brick wall for each other, that’s sometimes a difference that can win you games. I’m really happy with how we’ve developed over the past year.

What’s your roster like this season?

This year we have some big returners. We have Colton O’Neil, who was playing with the White Caps this summer. He’s a big returner. Connor MacMillan from Chilliwack is another player in the midfield who’s going to help us go forward, scoring goals and attacking. Our centre backs, Tammer Byrne and Steve Phagura, are going to be two leaders from the back, and then you’ve got a couple of firstyears that have come to the squad: Brady Weir and Dylan McCrindle are going to make some impact as first-year players.

What expectations do you have for the team this year?

I have high expectations. I want us to make the play offs. We’ve made the playoffs the past two years, the two years that I was here as an assistant, and now that I’m head coach the goal is the same — to make the playoffs. And when we make the playoffs, we’re trying to go as far as we can. We want to try and win Canada West and go on to nationals. That’s a tough goal when you have such quality programs at UBC and UVic and Trinity Western, and then all these really good schools and good teams. We’re going to set the bar high and we’re going to look to do well, and I think with the squad we have we’re more than capable of doing it. We’ve just got to work hard and get a little bit of luck on the way and we’ll be fine.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Scoreboard

Upcoming Games

Men’s soccer:

Women’s soccer:

Men’s soccer:

Men’s basketball:

Friday Sept 18 UFV Cascades vs. UBC Thunderbirds L 3-2

Friday Sept 18 UFV Cascades vs. TRU Wolf Pack W 1-0

Saturday Sept 19 UFV Cascades vs. UVic Vikes W 2-1

Saturday Sept 19 UFV Cascades vs. UBCO Heat W 3-1

Saturday Sept 26 2:15 p.m.

UFV Cascades vs. UNBC Timberwolves (away)

Saturday Sept 26 7:00 p.m.

UFV Cascades vs. Seattle Mountaineers (home)

Sunday Sept 27 2:15 p.m.

UFV Cascades vs. UNBC Timberwolves (away)

Men’s and women’s golf:

Women’s basketball: Friday Sept 18 UFV Cascades vs. Calgary Dinos L 69-57

Women’s soccer: Friday Sept 25 5:00 p.m.

UFV Cascades vs. UofA Pandas (away)

Saturday Sept 26 Time TBA PacWest Golf Invitational Camosen College

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Saturday Sept 26 12:00 p.m. UFV Cascades vs. UNBC Timberwolves (away) Image: UFV Cascades